Bad science is being used to justify killing wild steelhead on British Columbia's famed Bulkley River.
The rivers of Roderick Haig-Brown are in crisis; steelhead runs are endangered, and money to save the watersheds is running short.
“It’s all in the drift,” says the professor of nymphology on the banks of New Zealand's Buller River. “You have to think in three dimensions now. "
A deadly coho fly that mixes two shockingly unfashionable colors.
Jim Gilbert used to offer a guarantee: No salmon, no fee. Now he finds it easier to make fish out of silver, or gold, than to catch them in Saanich Inlet.
The marriage was ruined and it looked like the river would the be the next big casualty...until the lawyer decided to say to hell with his New York practice.
Genes that make salmon grow ten times as fast. What could be wrong with that?
The cry of the loon echoed across the lake, "He's going to die, he's going to die."
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A powerful piece of literate journalism, a visit to the Mirimachi and wandering through the Northwest Territories.
The fish is here somewhere, I just know it. A picture for you to enjoy and download as a desktop.
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The tail of a giant Thompson River Steelhead is firmly gripped shortly before its release back into the Bonaparte River near Cache Creek, B.C.

Photograph by Nick Didlick

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